The Coalies Are Back In Town

[coalcube]

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Re: Why and How You Participate In Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I'm here for the writing. Similar story to 17-year Yuletider nonnie above - I'm mostly in small fandoms anyway, used to be much more prolific back in the day, but now Yuletide tradition is about the only thing pushing me to get any fic at all written. (I like getting prompts, which give me inspiration for short stories instead of my writing brain's default setting of sprawling multi-novel epics that will never get written, and the timing provides a useful, "Crap, I have published exactly zero fics this so far this year, I should write something," kick in the butt.) The past couple of years I haven't bothered signing up, just tried to write as many treats as I can. Receiving a gift was a nice bonus, but the surrounding faff of deciding requests/offers, coming up with prompts, writing a letter and keeping up with various deadlines just feels like too much hassle these days.

I always feel like I should pay closer attention to other exchanges and try to write treats for them too, but when I've looked around either my tiny old fandoms are absent or there's a lower wordcount minimum so the prompts tend to be vaguer and less likely to hook me. Yuletide hits the perfect balance of people requesting my fandoms with a wordcount minimum that's long enough for people to give plottier prompts but not so long it's intimidating.